Spent a lovely morning with Jess and the girls celebrating her engagement. Everyone worked so hard, and the costumes looked amazing. Watching the video back this afternoon made me want to cry - you all looked so good having danced for such a short time!

I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Really hope you did too.

Congratulations again to Jess. Hope everything goes well on the big day

Following an extremely intensive week in Sunderland last week where I joined other belly dancers to create a FANTASTIC show by the end of the week taught by Sara Farouk Ahmed, and getting my dance dojo back, I spent a lovely evening with the women of the Northern Women's Institute in Rochdale.

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Hi. I'm Sarah. I have been learning belly dance for what feels a very long time, but I still love it as much now as I did then. If you, dear reader, have been thinking about giving it go and haven't yet done so, now is the time. Take the plunge and join me (and many others) in this fabulous, joyous dance.